It requires a standard to be "irrevocably available on a royalty-free basis" and impose no constraints on "re-use." Such restrictions don't allow standards that, for example, rely on patents for which a royalty may be charged, according to Müller.

I am all for open source, it has produced a lot of very useful things and lowered the cost of computing. But to imagine that we can do away with proprietary technology is naive. I'm convinced that the very existence of Microsoft drives the open source movement to produce much more.
I don't know what the answer to the problem is, but every time someone tries to harmonise something, we seem to loose more than we gain.
Thanks to Strange Stuff for the link.